Fate

The start

The young bosmer opened her tired eyes only to find she was in a cell, and she couldn't even remember how she got there. However, she remembered a few things. Her name was Mauni, she was a teenager, and she was quite the agile assassin. Maybe that's what got her in jail, who knows?

"Ah, a pretty little wood elf," a sly voice said, catching Mauni's attention, "You're a little far from the forest, aren't you?" The voice continued. The bosmer couldn't remember where she had resided before all of this nonsense, so she paid no mind to the forest talk. After he was finally done spatting out useless insults, Mauni craned her neck in the direction of some foreign voices. 'Oh great,' she thought emotionlessly, 'maybe that idiot was right, and they're here to kill me.' That last part was a bit of a snicker on her part, for she would dash out of the cell before they could even draw their weapons.

However, when the voices approached her cell, Mauni was slightly confused. What was a noble looking elder doing in an ugly place like this? The young bosmer twitched as one of the guards was ranting about her being in this particular cell, but she didn't pay any mind to it. "Stand back prisoner," the female started, "We won't hesitate to kill you if you get in our way." Mauni did as she was told, which was no problem on her part, and stood a bit aways from the others.

However, the elder looked at Mauni and examined her with wise eyes, eyes she wasn't used to seeing.

"You. I've seen you before. Let me see your face," he began before examining Mauni's ghostly pale and sickly looking face, "You are the one from my dreams. Then the stars were right, and this is the day. Gods give me strength." he said again, making Mauni gaze at him with a little uncertainty.

What the hell was this elder talking about? Mauni had no idea you could see things before they happen in your dreams, it was all too confusing to her simple mind.

"Who are you?" Mauni asked with a soft and semi-frightened voice. "I am your emperor, Uriel Septim VII." Ahh, that explained why he looked so noble. The wood elf just simply nodded, not really wanting to talk anymore, this was sadly the most she has spoken in the last two years, as far as she knows.

Mauni started to tone him out, nodding whenever he said something that sounded important, which was most of it. After he was done rambling on, the guards pressed a block in and the wall started moving. That would've been useful to know a bit earlier before all this useless stuff started to happen.

And yet, the bosmer was still toning out his annoying guards when they were warning her for no reason, it's not like she had any weapons to attack them with.

Did these humans not realize she didn't want to talk? Silence was her strong point, and she wasn't changing her lifestyle to talk to some pompous imperial guards.

As they were walking down the many stairs, which was confusing to Mauni - why would they have so many secret passages around here? Anyway, all she saw was a blur of weird looking armor and a bunch of yelling, (and she managed to punch one of them and break their jaw), but that wasn't enough. After the sudden fight, their armor seemed to disappear out of no where and got replaced by red robes.

Sadly, one of the guards died, even though Mauni wasn't fond of her for being a bitch earlier, she still felt kind of bad for her fellow guards who seemed to be deeply bothered by her death.

However, she noticed two swords by the corpse and reached down, taking a weird looking sword and sheathing it on her hip and gripping the short sword, getting used to the odd feeling.

"Stay here prisoner," was all she heard before they continued onward into the passages. Then all of a sudden, the wall to right broke down and a rat leaped at her. Grabbing her sword, she quickly stabbed it and it fell to the ground dead.